"To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life."

"The mind of a man is a strange thing, a mysterious thing, a thing that dreams."

"Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the soul. It is an ardent, celestial, inextinguishable flame."

"Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart."

"When a man is in love, he is hardly a good judge of anything."